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Well, it's not like there aren't any other known steroids users with odd physical conditions not caused by steroid use. At least, I've never heard allegations that steroids cause the lower half of your body to turn into a horse.

Over the past few days, in some form, I have received the following sentiment from three high-ranking front office men independent of one another:

“What is up with the Mets? Why aren’t they doing more to make some trades before the deadline?”

Translation: Though they are playing better, they still are in a rebuilding phase and should be much more aggressive in this trade market.

So I spoke with a few Mets officials who essentially said, what are these guys talking about? Members of the Mets front office say their phones have been mainly quiet, that there has been a nibble here and there but nothing special, zero traction. The Mets officials said it is not their job to push their players or else you look desperate and lower the value of your commodities. The message was, call us.

So what we have here is a failure to communicate. Outside officials believe the Mets have been underwhelming in their efforts in trying to see what would be surrendered for Bobby Parnell and Marlon Byrd, in particular. They theorize ownership wants to win as much as possible this year to sell tickets now and for 2014. [...]

With so many teams hungry for bats, particularly righty bats with power, you would think Byrd would get some feelers. But when I ask outside executives, there is a variance of what the Mets could get in return from “not much,” according to an AL general manager, to “a piece that can help them in the future,” according to a scout whose team needs a bat.